RAISE(3) Linux Programmer's Manual RAISE(3)
NAME
raise - send a signal to the caller
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h>
int raise(int sig);
DESCRIPTION
The raise() function sends a signal to the calling process or thread. In a single-threaded program it is equivalent to
kill(getpid(), sig);
In a multithreaded program it is equivalent to
pthread_kill(pthread_self(), sig);
If the signal causes a handler to be called, raise() will only return after the signal handler has returned.
RETURN VALUE
raise() returns 0 on success, and nonzero for failure.
CONFORMING TO
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO
getpid(2), kill(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), pthread_kill(3), signal(7)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
GNU
2008-10-17 RAISE(3)
